FFX's Biggest Skip Ever Was Just Found By Speedrunners 

IMPORTANT: THIS WORKS ON BOTH PS2 AND HD REMASTER. Also, a few of you have mentioned this skip was known already. Clasko skip, the first one mentioned, was already known. MRR skip was the one that was found just 6 days ago and saves 20 minutes Thanks for watching, hopefully my next upload won't take another 2 months!

Tidus’ line soon after this point where he says, “We can’t just skip all that, right?” now just became so much more iconic.

Brilliant explanation, incredible skip. Never thought I'd see the day such a significant skip was found. Amazing job by the community, impossible to count out even more being found in the future at this stage. The game held up to attempts to really break it for so long but it seems awesome progress is being made finally. Great work by everyone involved and very interesting to watch it unfold :)

Ffx is a game near and dear to my heart. It brings me immense joy that 2 decades after its release. It still gets attention. I love the speedrunners. They breathe live into this timeless gem of a game.

It blows my mind how much the FFX speedrun has evolved in the last few years. Bahamut endgame, RNG tracking, and cutscene skipping have all been paradigm shifting, and now we have the first skip which is major enough to require a reroute. I wonder what the next shift will be... For the record, every moving NPC in the game has been looked at for the potential of this kind of trick... but the fact that we missed this shows that even huge skips are easy to miss.

Now if only a blitzball skip could be found.

Would be crazy if more skips started popping up, like they did for FF7 during the 2018 - 2021 period. The Golden Age for FFX :)

Hi, peppy here. Figured I'd chip in, being one of the people that's attempting (not too successfully, I'll admit) to reverse-engineer this game. Skips in FFX usually come with zero global repercussions because events/scripting in this game are done on a per-area basis. The game has no concept of a 'global progression state' other than one integer denoting storyline progression, but there are plenty of instances where it isn't checked against because the game, rightly, assumes you could not have done a sequence break. If you can break through the invisible boundary preventing you from leaving an area in a direction you're not meant to, this usually results in a successful skip; all that is left is to reroute. Not that this is trivial by any stretch of the imagination, mind you; but skips in this game, when found, just work, and undoubtedly more will surface in the future when we develop the tools we need to inspect event scripts and maps in-depth- an effort that's been in progress for quite the merry while now. As robust as this game is, one arbitrary memory write/execution glitch would kill it. Only two memory values need be written to perform arbitrary map warps. In most instances, the events of the map will start as if you had made it there legitimately. Obviously, it's quite unlikely we find an ACE method, but I'm just saying the veil is thinner in actuality than it seems. God only knows what's in store for FFX next.

Someone quick go tell dansg08! 🍷🗿

Absolutely insane nobody’s found this until now

this is crazy. shout out to Doc for being the best at explaining this, I felt out of the loop until I saw this.

It should be called The Terra Skip to give credit for such a good find!

FFX still looking big to this day, after almost 20 years, amazing.

I was there for Chris's stream and it was awesome! Especially when he was able to repeat the skip a second time 😁

I see FFX, i click on FFX. Simple philosophy

This is unreal. I wonder if there will ever be a day where the Speedrunners find a way to go from Macalania Woods to skip to the Calm Lands.

It is kind of baffling that something like this would take 20 years to discover. In most popular games glitch hunters will analyze every pixel of every wall that stands in their way to find out if it can be clipped through. Finding a way past an invisible wall when there are NPCs that can push you nearby seems like the kind of thing that a lot of people would have tried long ago.

I would like to mention those who are new to FFX in particular might wanna know something very important. You can't skip cutscenes. Even in the remaster. Square seems to never ever ever give you an option to skip them in games that didn't already have them when it comes to Final Fantasy. So for every single game from 1-10, you're enduring every single one of them. They didn't start letting you skip until *12.* So if you fuck up a run by dying or missing a big skip, you're going to have to keep mashing X to skip half-finished dialogues and have to sit there for every single FMV. Again. And again. And again. It's not like the Kingdom Hearts re-releases where 1 added a cutscene skip and all other games let you skip. You're dealing with all of them, take it or leave it. That's why FFX's Any% reads more like your entire single day off from work than a speedrun. ...And that's just the Any%, which tries to find every skip possible. Have fun looking at 100%.

Part of the reaosn I think the run has been so long after all these years is that fewer people are looking for skips because of it's reputation as an unbreakable game. The more skips people find, the quicker and more manageable the run gets, the more likely it is that additonal skips will be discovered.

I love that the speedrun community is like 200 people lol

Actually tried this with my last play of FFX glitch hunting but talked to Clasko instead trying to get pushed, gave up after a couple of hours though but feel redeemed to know I wasn't too far off 😋

Awesome video. Was already waiting for it since the tweet :D Also great stuff for their community and the speedrun community in generel :D

This game's 20 years old, how are people still learning new things about it!?

My favorite game! FFX never gets these “Biggest skip found!” videos what a great day!

What a skip. Next up: How THIS NPC pushes runners through the entire game!

Now this is damn cool. Such an impressive skip, and well explained too

I'm on my umpteenth playthrough of this game, have been playing it since it was the very first game I got with my brand new PS2 22 years ago 🧓 and the fact that there's still such a dedicated community and fanbase for my favorite game of all time, even after 2 decades is just incredibly wholesome to me and makes my heart warm.

Interesting! A skip that was one thought to not exist, and in one of my Favorite FF games? Wont be long I feel before sub 8 hour is not only possible, but achieved!

Spamming to get passed NPCs has been known about for decades. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more

Swelly with the super quick upload! And shout outs to the LOCAL MAN!

That's always amazing when a major skip is discovered in a videogame !! ^^ Thanks for the video, greetings from Belgium in Europe.

this is really cool I haven't seen a ffx speedrun in a while but glad new tricks are still being found

The only opportunity to obtain a weapon with the initiative ability would be from the quctuar in the Thunder Plains. Don't know how it will affect the seeds by having that be the priority, but it's an option.

ffx graphics are fucking unreal 22 years old

awesome video 20 mins is a nuts amount of time almost as nuts as how quick u got this video out

People like to imagine that FF as a series looked like the 8bit games just 2 decades ago but in reality FF10 already was around. Really puts things into perspective.

Honestly players that find these skips are unreal that is awesome. So final fantasy 10 mushroom rock road terra skip. Has a good ring to it. Awesome that u also say who found it coz they help change the speed running of these games. What a amazing skip.

22 years and it still gives novelty😊

damn just watched a gdq speed run of this the other week and it really made me wanna play it again lol. now this is just nuts.

Mind blowing the kind of stuff speedrunners discover in this field. A true display of creativity and ingenuity sometimes.

NEW SWELLY!!! im here for it, also its wild how these skips are found YEARS after the game comes out. incredible

Was always curious to see if a skip like this could happen. Puts the game that much closer to getting times shorter than a few hours one would hope, cause maybe this glitch is usable in other places

Sheeesh hyped to see where this leads future runs. I sense many breakthroughs on the horizon 🙏

i wish we could speedrun the time to a Final Fantasy X remake... 😢

Just had this pop up randomly on main feed. I think it's really awesome people are still finding ways throughout the years to change the playstyle meta. 🎉❤

I'm actually surprised people forgot this existed, this glitch was found 2 years after the game released. Then again, it was found before speed running was a thing, so its no wonder no one really remembers since it wasn't important. MRR skip is included in what was already found.

new swllman vid! LETS GOOO

How in the world do people do these things? Damn, kudos to them.

it is now possible to beat FFX with your only actions being default-targeted default attacks *without* doing blitzball for 10 hours for teleport spheres

Oh damn, this reminds me of that pseudo-New Game+ trick from Final Fantasy X International. I didn't know there was more of these!

My first time playing through FFX I got all the way to the mushroom rock road sinspawn without actually leveling up a single time. I thought just moving around the sphere grid was enough, didn’t realize I had to manually activate the spheres. Had a friend from school come over and help me and he’s the one that told me how bad I fucked up

lol 22 years later and the answer was so simple, 12 hours of gameplay saved.

Wow i haven't seen the wheel of time symbol in forever in candid context.

Nice, on my birthday, no less! Keep up the good work, speedrunning community.

I was there when it happened 😂 9:01

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Cool fact that running soldier has the same voice actor as robin from teen titans go! Alot of years apart

What I want more than anything is a FF that takes us through jet and braskas pilgrimage

thank you for putting in the Illusion soundtrack. that is my favorite one from this game that really takes me back to some great times

Im not a fan of speedrunners, specially in FFX, but this is really cool

This is awesome. Great skip and great video.

Speedruns are always evolving which is pretty cool.

I think it's possible to gain infinite sphere levels with save data corruption manipulation. A couple months ago, while playing casually, I was doing some grinding, spent my sphere levels, and my power went out. When I reloaded the game, my progress on the grid was saved, but I still had my sphere levels. The weirdest thing was the power didn't even go out while I was saving. I believe it was as I was changing zones in the bikanel desert. PS3 HD remaster version. No idea how to replicate it. But it happened. And there has to be a way its useful

Back in the day the game was released, in one of the playthrus I apparently witnessed some sort of a glitchbor bug, I encountered cactuars (or qactuars?) at thunder plains and they dropped a gear for kimahri that had no encounters trait. I was able to waltz my way freely after that. But the cacti are supposed to appear there only lot later and I don't think they're even supposed to drop no enc trait but they did. Color me surprised. And I have played the game multiple times afterwards and no such events occuring ever again in thunder plains. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The ACTUAL biggest FFX skip hasn’t been found yet… Cutscene skip XD

This was a nice RU-vid recommendation. Thanks for the video Dude

I’m not a speed runner but I find the mechanics so interesting. I thought it was funny because I was just thinking about playing through this.

Im really proud of ffx community always find something interesting new

Can you imagine what else can be skipped with this technique

Wow what an awesome discovery! Maybe I need to learn the run now :D Had that itch time to time. It's not the best possible speedgame, but it is one of the damndest masterpieces in all of gaming.

Well, MKDD was eventually broken, so I'm not terribly surprised that even FFX is finally starting to be broken. Still, great find! I was always curious about this area, despite my not being an X speedrunner, simply because I find this part of the story incredibly annoying.

This is like the Muse-Matilda glitch in Suikoden 2

I love how people still find new tricks ina 22 year old game

hi, new here. i'm so distracted by how pronounces the "x" in "ffx" saying "f f 'ecks" instead of "f f ten" lmao. this video was really interesting, i'll check out some others. thanks!

Hey doc, love the vid, what a find! Wondering, do you reach out to the content creators that you showcase in your vids, for permission to use their content? or is it more 'fyi - your content is going in my video, is that ok + ref their names / vids / details in the video and in comments?' - asking as couldn't think of another way to contact you + researching for a video that includes other people's ffx footage. Cheers, JG.

As someone who loves to play this game casually, seeing this skip is very much welcome. I hated mushroom rock encounters because pretty much having Wakka and Lulu is a must here and their sphere grids would progress more than other characters because of this

I'm seeing the "FF" story without any retell videos, and I decided to start by the "FFs" that influenced "KH" the most. And this is the weird part. I never saw "FF X" in my life until a few days ago, but watching it made me feel nostalgic (not even "Kingdom Hearts" managed to make me feel like that). Watching it, was like seeing those old football animes I used to love as a child and "Fatal Frame" as I was experiencing them for the firsr time again. "FF X" was like meeting a new passion and an old friend at the same time. Is such thing even possible ? Has someone ever felt something similar to this ?

holy baloney! Kinda wanna use that in regular gameplay now, mushroom rock is such a snoozefest of exposition.

Hey just started another playthru

I love how unbroken and well built this game is. ,y favorite game ever. Best story.

What!? That whole section seemed like wayyyy longer than 20 minutes 😮

I love how speedrunners keep older games alive.

The only game that i wanna replay again but just no time i skipped so many boss even one summoning 3 sister

Mandela Effect hitting me hard right now because I could swear I seen videos of someone doing this in the original PS2 game

15.05.2023 I was here!!

Sooo I watched Metroid Prime stuff and a Prime video dropped, I watched FFX stuff the other day and this drops... Do I have magical powers or just incredible timing?!

My first thougth 1 min in the video was but wont you be losing tko and iniative? And turns out its exactly what happens.

I’d love to hear how he says FFXIII.

video gaming alert

I just discovered the biggest FF 13 skip! First you open the trash can, preferably one you can open with your foot, then you throw the disc in as hard as you can.

This could have been so useful when I got my first pirated copy of FFX back in 2003 or so and couldn't get past Gui because of piracy protection... After defeating him, the next cutscene never loaded lol Had to save my pocket money for months to get the original platinum version 🤣🤣🤣

Yo Doctor Swellman! Have a nice day.

My question is, once the skip is performed, what happens to the GUI boss fights? Do they become completely skipped and unplayable on return visits, or are still there?

Great video. This is amazing.

Djose skip next! Make it happen

Biggest skip - cuts 20 minutes in a 10nhour run

Will Closetowar return?

Just Djose skip is pending now

Seriously how they find this out is beyond me, imagine if we can do this shits irl l ao

Just need Djose Skip to become real now too. Let's go.